A Co Kerry man has been found guilty of the manslaughter of his uncle in 1996.
Eugene Daly (29) of Dooneen, Kilcummin, Killarney, was found not guilty of murder of his uncle Mr Patrick (Paddy) Daly (69) more than eight years ago.
A jury in the Central Criminal Court returned the verdict today after three days of deliberation.
During the murder trial, the court heard that Daly told gardaí his father, Seán, who is now deceased, hit his uncle Paddy with an iron bar and that he disposed of his uncle's body in a well on the family farm following a row over money and land.
In his evidence he repeatedly said that he "wanted to be a tough guy" and compared his uncle's killing to a scene from a war movie, a western or a thriller such as Goodfellas, The Godfatheror Twin Peaks.
Daly told the jury that for many years he "used to retreat into a fantasy world of detectives, police and cowboy movies".
He said he had purposely implicated himself in his uncle's killing after his father's arrest so that he'd get "busted". "I was very close to my father and I couldn't leave him suffer in jail alone," he said. "So I started to implicate myself in these matters so I'd get busted with him".
When asked why he told gardaí that his uncle's killing had been premeditated by him and his father, he said: "That was just copying the tough guys, like in Taggart".